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Presented by
Dr. Anabel Vivas-Marfisi Centre for Rhizobium Studies
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Murdoch University :
ECCAL: Eastern Cape Community Arable Land Project
SIMLESA: Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Cropping Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa
• Use of Conservation Agriculture in community grasslands in South Africa by:
reducing tillage to improve pasture production on marginal lands
use of legumes in maize systems
Murdoch in ECCAL 2007-2011 eastern Cape
RSA:
Direct drilling (CA) at Rockcliffe
Annual re-seeding and resilient legumes sown into grasslands to provide N and winter feed
August 1, 2007-Lushington
• Annual species– Trifolium hirtum– Trifolium vesiculosum– Biserrula pelecinus– Medicago polymorpha– Ornithopus compressus
• Perennial species– Trifolium repens– Medicago sativa– Lotus corniculatus– Lotononis bainesii– Lespedeza cuneata– Desmodium intortum
Legumes still present in March 2010
March 2010
High grazing pressure
Persistence 2007-2011
Annual legumes were also tested in maize rotations-could have application in SIMLESA
Summer maize thriving after annual legume in winter 2010
Murdoch in SIMLESA:
• 2011: • Field trials in Ethiopia set-up in March 2011 • (Pieter Conradie, Lambert Brau)
Inoculation and BNF in Legume/Maize cropping systems (Bako and Hawassa sites)
• Proposed Field trials in Malawi and Mozambique To promote the uptake and development of Rhizobium
technology-Legume inoculant manufacture
Murdoch in SIMLESA:
• Murdoch staff available to assist in:
Legume inoculant manufacture and quality control
Inoculation experiments
Nitrogen fixation and transfer
Specialist training classes
PhD and MSc
Scientist exchange
Murdoch expertise
• Rhizobiology• Resilient and re-seeding legumes• Nitrogen fixation in farming systems
CRS African team: Dr Anabel
Vivas-Marfisi Pieter
Conradie Prof John
Howieson Dr Ron
Yates Prof Graham
O’Hara Neil Ballard